[R] read.table issue with "#"

[Jim Holtman]

use the 'comment.char' parameter of read.table

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On Mar 1, 2012, at 17:51, Rui Barradas <rui1174 at sapo.pt> wrote:

> Hello,
> 
>> 
>> The problem is that I get a the following error bacause anything after the
>> # is ignored.
>> 
>> Error in scan(file, what, nmax, sep, dec, quote, skip, nlines, na.strings, 
>> :
>>  line 6 did not have 500 elements
>> 
>> R thinks that line 6 has only 2 elements because of the #.
>> 
> 
> Use 'readLines' instead, followed by 'strsplit'.
> In the example below the separator is a space.
> 
> tc <- textConnection(
> "yes yes yes yes yes
> yes yes yes yes yes
> yes yes # yes yes"
> )
> #x <- read.table(tc)   # same error: "line 3 did not have 5 elements"
> x <- readLines(tc)
> close(tc)
> strsplit(x, " ")
> 
> Hope this helps,
> 
> Rui Barradas
> 
> 
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